Not that Train Dreams is about misery and suffering. Sure, it's about poleaxing tragedy that knocks the stuffing out of a person, creating a void likely never to be filled.

Train Dreams. A Novella. Denis Johnson. Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 116 pp., $18. It’s a curious thing about Denis Johnson: For a writer I admire as much as (if not more than) any of his ...

Train Dreams, first published in a slightly different version in The Paris Review in 2003, is a gem of a story, set in rough times, in a tough terrain, and tenderly told.

“Train Dreams” is a patient, profound, and painful experience, bringing all the visual power of a Terrence Malick film to its corner of the Pacific Northwest as cinematographer Adolpho Veloso ...

PARK CITY, Utah—Nothing lasts, everything fades, and all is ultimately forgotten, and yet if Train Dreams roots itself in that melancholic viewpoint, it also fights against such inevitability by ...

Nov. 29—A little more than 20 years ago, I found out I was having a boy. My side of the family just didn't have boys. I called my mom. "Well. ... It'll be alright." Very comforting. My sister ...

The 'Train Dreams' co-writers are also Oscar nominees for Sing Sing, but Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar almost didn't wake up to watch the noms.

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